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AXNA Feed Reader

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AXNA Feed Reader

Distilled data feed from the Adobe XML News Aggregator!
Pulls relevant data feeds from the Adobe XML News Aggregator (AXNA) at http://feeds.adobe.com/ – an invaluable community resource. This data is distilled into smart categories and present to the user for easy perusal.

I’ve gotten a lot of great info from AXNA – and I’m sure many other souls have gained great knowledge from this resource as well. in creating a demonstration for an upcoming set of lessons on Flash Builder and Flex, I began to see the benefit of making this application available to the community at large.

I do plan on making the source for this available, and also to distribute the app to other platforms aside from Android. This is beta (a few hours work) – but it is a good start.

Grab it from the Android Market

UPDATE:
Here’s a demo video…

AIR 2.7 is Out! AIR Linux to OSP!

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With yesterday’s release of AIR 2.7 on mobile and desktop, this brings the runtime up to date with Flash Player 10.3 capabilities along with a host of mobile specific improvements.

Linux porting kit for AIR

One aspect of this release that not many have taken note of is a new distribution model with AIR for Linux desktops. Adobe is now providing a Linux porting kit for AIR (including source code) to Open Screen Project partners interested in distribution.

This is pretty exciting, as it means more growth for the OSP and cooperation between Adobe and the OSS and Linux communities. It’s good for mobile AIR developments as well- since Adobe can now focus on that set of platforms. I’m hoping that the Linux community takes this opportunity and runs with it!

Let’s stay positive!

Read all about this and more over at ActiveTuts+

Adobe Announces Creative Suite 5.5!

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Create work for new devices and move designs across media. Develop with HTML5 in Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5.5 and with expanded platform support in Flash® Professional CS5.5. Boost your video editing efficiency with Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5 and deliver new reading experiences using InDesign® CS5.5. Now including Adobe Audition® CS5.5 and Flash Builder™ 4.5 Premium, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection software enables reaching out to audiences in new ways.

I’m actually more psyched about CS5.5 than I was about CS5. Adobe has made a lot of great improvements in a bunch of applications, and have corrected some of the grievous mistakes of the past.

Personally, I’m really glad the cat is out of the bag so that I can talk about those portions of my book which have been under embargo for the past four months. Those chapters that are not available should become available very soon!

So what are the hi-lights for me?

  • Flash Builder Premium 4.5 (mobile Flex framework and tooling, enough said!!!)
  • Flash Professional CS5.5 (mobile integration, great overall improvements)
  • Dreamweaver CS5.5 (jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, HTML5)
  • Audition CS5.5 (Resurrected!)
  • Premiere Pro and After Effects CS5.5 (Warp Stabilizer is mind-blowing)
  • Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 (Too many improvements to list)

Yep- they listened to us and are including Flash Builder 4.5 Premium in Master Collection and Web Premium! That was such an oversight for the CS5 release. Shameful!

Soundbooth is DEAD. Long live Audition! I loved having Audition as part of Production Premium CS2. When it was dropped from the CS3 suites and replaced with Soundbooth, I was pretty upset. Well, dancin’ on you grave tonight, Soundbooth!!!

(errr… my condolences to the Soundbooth team)

Great job, Adobe!

Repository of “Thoughts on Flash” responses and articles

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Steve Jobs sure hates Flash!

Honest to God I hate trudging this up every once in a while, but even though Steve Jobs “Thoughts on Flash” is nearly a year old… somehow people are just catching onto it now. I need a good repository of links that do a solid job of pointing out inaccuracies and providing clarity to the debate that can be easily shared with people who need to be educated around these issues. So here it is.

So please feel free to offer additional links in the comments. I’ve gathered these from some simple Google searches and community feedback from Twitter but am sure I’ve missed some real gems.

Responses to the letter from last year:

How is Flash doing now?:

November 9th 2011:
Mobile Flash Player: RIP